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Examples
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The people enjoy rain in sufficient quantity to raise very large supplies of grain and ground-nuts.
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These villagers supplied us abundantly with ground-nuts, maize, and corn.
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Their land is very fertile, and they can raise ground-nuts and manioc in abundance.
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On the morning of the 5th Cypriano generously supplied my men with pumpkins and maize, and then invited me to breakfast, which consisted of ground-nuts and roasted maize, then boiled manioc roots and ground-nuts, with guavas and honey as a dessert.
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The Balonda cultivate the manioc or cassava extensively; also dura, ground-nuts, beans, maize, sweet potatoes, and yams, here called “lekoto”, but as yet we see only the outlying villages.
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There is but little wood; here and there you see large single trees, or small clumps of evergreens, but the abundance of maize and ground-nuts we met with shows that more rain falls than in the Bechuana country, for there they never attempt to raise maize except in damp hollows on the banks of rivers.
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A crop of beans or ground-nuts is sown between them, and when these are reaped the land around the manioc is cleared of weeds.
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The Makalaka cultivate the ‘Holcus sorghum’, or dura, as the principal grain, with maize, two kinds of beans, ground-nuts (‘Arachis hypogoea’), pumpkins, watermelons, and cucumbers.
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There is a large, flat district of country to the north, said to be peopled by the Bashukulompo and other tribes, who cultivate the ground to a great extent, and raise vast quantities of grain, ground-nuts, sweet potatoes, etc.
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She then requested us to wait an hour or two till she could get ready a present of meal, manioc roots, ground-nuts, and a fowl.
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